Kilikiti
Samoan take on cricket — three-sided bat, rubber ball, huge villages-vs-villages teams and singing between overs.
👥15 per team🌤outdoor
What is Kilikiti?
Kilikiti is the Samoan (and wider Polynesian) take on cricket, adapted from the English game introduced by missionaries. It is played with a triangular three-sided wooden bat, a hard rubber ball wrapped in pandanus leaves, and often enormous village-versus-village teams. Music, chants and dancing between overs are integral to a match.
Quick facts
Category
Traditional & Cultural Sports
Type
Team sport
Players
15 per team
Where played
outdoor
Country of origin
🇼🇸 Samoa
Estimated origin
Samoa, late 1800s (colonial-era adaptation of cricket)
Olympic
No
Popularity
regional
Sources & provenance
Last verified 2026-08-24.verified